House Approves
Campaign Limits
On '527' Groups

WASHINGTON -- The House narrowly approved a Republican-backed bill to regulate the unlimited flow of campaign money to so-called 527 political groups, which sprang up as a powerful force in the last presidential election.

Adopted 218-209, the legislation would make 527s -- named for a section of the tax code -- subject to the same rules as traditional political-action committees, or PACs. But to win, House Speaker Dennis Hastert first had to fight his way past both liberal Democrats and a faction in his own caucus allied...